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Fargo, Nd

Fargo, Nd, Us

• Use best practices and methodologies to design, customize, and integrate with a variety of applications and associated solutions for our clients• Collaborate with a team to accomplish a range of development duties from basic design/configuration to custom development/plugins, data conversion, unit testing, quality assurance, and client support• Learn, utilize, and promote Onsharp’s Development Best Practices and Methodology• Work with team members and independently to develop, configure, and utilize key third-party products• Design custom data structures as required for the application• Contribute to current Onsharp solutions and customizations to build products to resell to future clients• Utilize internal solutions to develop and maintain source code and track outstanding items following the Onsharp development process• Manage solutions built by the team by merging changes to master source repositories• Build integrations to perform data conversion from external systems• Create application integrations as required to support application workflows• Complete project documentation such as: Functional Customization Specifications, Solution Design Documents, and User Acceptance Test Scripts• Participates in client meetings to gather business requirements and work with Director to design solutions that meet the requirements• Adhere to and implement all aspects of standard software development life cycle (SDLC) tasks including requirements analysis, design, coding, and testing• Support other Developers with various duties

Sioux Falls, Sd, Us

Apply extensive in-depth or broad knowledge, skills and practices of interdependent cross family experience to perform a variety of difficult assignments.Regularly uses new technologies, theories, concepts and techniques through designing, modifying,developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for a healthcare organization.Solves various software problems by using a wide range of technologies and languages.Lead projects regarding application analysis, coding, testing and enhancement.Provide training to software engineers on the development of software, including advanced technologies application and troubleshooting methods guidance.Apply thorough knowledge of computer principles and techniques necessary to develop and document software applications systems, as well as software programming.Apply knowledge of relational databases, Object Oriented programming, ASP.NET, C#, CSS, JavaScript,XML, SQL, XHTML, designing and developing web, mobile and/or Windows applications, operating systems and their tool sets, and customer business functions and terminology.

Sioux Falls, Sd, Us

Provides ongoing support and maintenance of content management tools and other team applications in support of business needs.Stays abreast of emerging technologies.Develops new applications and/or enhancements to existing applications that satisfy design requirements and conform to established development standards.Tests and inspects system applications to ensure customer satisfaction while sustaining production data integrity, conforming to established standards.Develops and maintains appropriate documentation on assigned systems.Demonstrates basic knowledge of software development principles.Provides ongoing support to internal and external customers (including after hours as assigned) to ensure limited business function interruption, optimum usage, and on-going evaluation of applications.Implements new software and software upgrades to ensure needed modifications and/or enhancements are addressed.Performs appropriate system security functions on assigned systems.Provides training in the use of new and/or enhanced applications, including the preparation of documentation for usage.

Red River Software provides leading-edge technology to C-Store, Convenience Store, Fuel Dealer, Petroleum Dealer, and Trucking Industries. Red River Software also provides custom programming options for different companies. Red River Software uses C#, C++, VB, ASP, and TSQL for different projects and databases (MS SQL Server, FoxPro). Red River Software also uses third party controls, such as, DevExpress products, active reports, SQL server and reporting, and Janus products.• Developed new applications as well as update existing applications.• Helped design architecture and outline the process to create a successful solution. • Understood common development tools and processes and the key components to successful application development. • Analyzed, reviewed, and altered programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements. • Interpreted business requirements and software designs into a workable application. • Estimated the number of hours involved in developing a custom software application. • Developed and maintained an extensive knowledge of our customer’s applications and business processes. • Followed standard policies and procedures defined by the application development team. • Delivered high value services to clients and maximize consultant utilization. • Continually drove high utilization and effectiveness on projects. • Wrote technical documentation for the projects to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections. • Recreated steps taken by the user to locate source of problems and rewrote program to correct errors. • Communicated development solutions to stakeholders in a precise and clear manner. • Assisted in support of end-users on developed applications. • Developed multi-threaded applications, web services, and Windows Phone 6.5 applications from time-to-time.

• Worked as a teaching assistant for freshmen students for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint)• Worked as a tutor for Java for year. • Worked as a grader for different courses.

• Researched and modeled Capacitated Transshipment Problem solution for predicting Biological Signaling Pathways using Java and SAS.• Learned different languages and developed/researched several projects.• Developed a PERL program for target-prediction problem of microRNA with about 10 self-selected features affecting the binding of micro-RNA with other nucleotides using UNIX• Implemented K-means, KNN, Naïve Bayes Classification algorithms in Matlab using Octave.• Researched on Horizontal Processing of Vertical Data using C/C++ in relation with P-trees • Developed a website using C#, VS, JavaScript, XML, and access database.• Implemented Java program for prediction for text mining text files for words or sentences by storing words in a dictionary. • Implemented Java program for prediction in Protein-Protein interaction network by analyzing PPI data.• Worked on implementation of iterative deepening search using Adobe AIR and other search algorithms such as A* and Uniform Cost search. • Developed Prolog models for class projects• Implemented linear programming models for different algorithms using AMPL and SAS OPTMODEL.

• Worked as a tutor at TRIO programs for different courses and languages, including, C#, Java, Ruby, COBOL, and PERL• Enhanced analytical techniques to deal with different types of problems• Shaped communication, interpersonal, teamwork and detail-oriented skills• Polished problem-solving attitude

NDSU Capstone project is a training project for computer science students with companies, such as, Polaris Industries, to learn new technologies and gain technical experience. • Gathered requirements from stakeholders in a precise and clear manner. • Wrote technical documentation for the projects for the entire SDLC: Software Requirements, Software Development Plan, Software Design, Software Test Plan, and Software Test Documentation. • Developed web parts as features in C# using VS 2010 and VS 2008 for SharePoint 2010 and 2007, respectively. • Tracked the requirements and program changes using Trac / SVN. • Designed UML diagrams for the features using SmartDraw• Led the team using organization and communication skills for management of the group using IBM Rational Pro and/or Microsoft Project. • Used learned information to design using design patterns and follow Agile development.

Center of Cell Analysis and Modeling department is a part of University of Connecticut Health Center for analyzing and modeling virtual cells and predict molecular (or other) reactions and interactions. • Implemented sub-routines in PERL through Eclipse for the improvement of the software BioNetGen@VCell• Analyzed and improved SBML/XML/VCML files for construction of proper biological data format

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health/Health Care Administration/Management

M.S. Computer Science

Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Biotechnology

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